At 12:13 PM 3/18/00 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote:
>I'm not sure how useful they would be to HAMS:
>
My comments were made tongue-in-cheek. It was a mild attempt at humor.
>
>I think one of the best things to come out of this was the demonstration
>that is possible to mass-produce satellites that are reliable. I believe
>Motorola had the cycle time for building/testing an Iridium satellite down
>about 4 DAYS instead of the industry average of several months.
>
Don't know where you got your figures. Maybe they could ASSEMBLE the
component parts and test them in four days, but the part I was involved in,
reaction wheel assembly, took hundreds of man hours and several weeks per RWA.
Mark
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